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" I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. "

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" I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30. "

" I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it. "

" I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at. "

" I'm not much of an eater. "

" I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that. "

" People want to marry me for companionship. No thanks! I've got my cats for that! "

" I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets. "

" Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character. "

" I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it. "

" In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. "

" The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. "

" I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. "

" I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down. "

" Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language. "

" While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen. "

" I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to. "

" The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS. "

" My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that. "

" I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it. "

" I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot. "

" Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights. "

" I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist. "

" People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed. "

" I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway. "

" I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated. "

" Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse. "

" I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh. "

" There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare. "

" I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure. "

" I always write about what interests me. "